Ron Johnson Targets McCain; Implies His Health Care Vote Was Tainted.

“Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican who voted in favor of the GOP plan to repeal parts of Obamacare last month, suggested Tuesday that Sen. John McCain’s deciding vote against the proposal may have been related to his brain cancer.”

(Via Politico.)

“I’m not going to speak for John McCain, you know, he has a brain tumor right now, that vote occurred at 1:30 in the morning, some of that might have factored in,” Johnson said on the radio program “Chicago’s Morning Answer.”

“Again, I-I-I don’t know exactly what — we really thought that — and again I don’t want speak for any senator,” Johnson said. “I really thought John was going to vote yes to send that to conference at 10:30 at night.”

“By about 1, 1:30, he voted no, so you’d have talk to John for what was on his mind,” he continued.

McCain was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor last month and underwent surgery to remove it; he’s now receiving further treatment at home in Arizona.

In reality though, the chances are very slim that McCain’s brain cancer is already impacting his cognitive ability. It seems, from our perspective, that this is just another excuse to get out of the fact that the GOP failed, after 7 years of promises, to repeal and replace ObamaCare.

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